Andrew McKinley - Stardate Calculator

This is an almost embarrassingly simple stardate calculator. Below is the code, feel free to use and modify it for your own needs!

One thing to note, this is not *technically* an accurate stardate. To calculate a stardate, we must subtract from January 1, 2318. This in result gives us a negative number. However, I think this looks hideous, and as we are still ~300 years way from the date, I don't want to see a negative number next to the stardate. To fix this the absolute number (math.abs) is used.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Stardate Calculator</title>

<style>

body {

font-family: Arial, sans-serif;

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

background-color: #f2f2f2;

}

.container {

max-width: 600px;

margin: 0 auto;

padding: 20px;

background-color: #fff;

box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);

border-radius: 5px;

}

h1, h2 {

text-align: center;

margin-bottom: 30px;

}

label {

display: block;

font-size: 18px;

font-weight: bold;

margin-bottom: 10px;

}

.result {

font-size: 24px;

font-weight: bold;

text-align: center;

margin-top: 30px;

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Stardate Calculator</h1>

</div>

function updateStardate() {

var timestamp = new Date().getTime();

var stardate = Math.round(Math.abs((timestamp - Date.parse('2318-01-01')) / (24 * 60 * 60 * 0.68)) * 100) / 100;

document.getElementById('result').innerHTML = "Stardate: " + stardate;

}

updateStardate();

setInterval(updateStardate, 1000);

</script>

</body>

</html>